RE: [Nolug] need lots of knoppix copies

I use knoppix and if you have a floppy all of your settings can be saved to
it... or network drives, internet?, and usb space... I dont have a HD or
Floppy so I save things to my digital camera :) Never would have thought it
would be so userful!

>From: "Chris Reames" <chris@drugfreemro.com>
>Reply-To: nolug@joeykelly.net
>To: <nolug@joeykelly.net>
>Subject: RE: [Nolug] need lots of knoppix copies
>Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 15:15:51 -0600
>
>Yea, like that there.
>I must have missed the Windows open source thingys.
>
>Ok, with boot from CD option, how are you going to reconfigure your
>settings?
>Or are you expecting to run from a CD-RW?
>Maybe a diskette app that rewrites specific files?
>
>On the CD Distro Pack, I have found that when configuring Web/E-mail
>Servers
>and such that part of the instructions include downloading some package
>and/or dependant package. I would like these to be part of the CD with
>specific NEWBIE instructions on how to setup basic functional
>configurations.
>(trying to setup e-mail on my Suse box makes me cry. I have VERY bad
>instructions.)
>
>On the Windows apps, I hate to admit it, but I'm more comfortable exploring
>a new package on a windows box.
>I do a lot on my Linux box, but not much experimenting. I've been fighting
>windows for 13 years.
>I've only worked with 2 distros of Linux.
>
>Anyway, I want to learn, and I want to help.
>Chris
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-nolug@joeykelly.net [mailto:owner-nolug@joeykelly.net]On
>Behalf Of Joey Kelly
>Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 01:38 PM
>To: nolug@joeykelly.net
>Subject: Re: [Nolug] need lots of knoppix copies
>
>
><snip>
>
> >I have DSL here and a bit of free time during the day, so if you compile
>a
> >list of links that go directly to the files you want on a CD, I will
> >download and burn a copy.
>
>Thanks. We'll work on a list. Maybe one of the precompiled windows OSS CDs
>will work.
>
> >Only stipulation is that the finished CD has all
> >the required files to configure a basic WEB/Email server with Firewall
>for
> >that distro.
>
>I'd rather leave that to the distro. Most disros have wizards for that sort
>of thing.
>
>Um, wait, are we on the same page? The compilation CD is for WINDOWS
>open-source programs, sush as Mozilla, OOoo, etc. There's no use compiling
>a
>CD of Linux apps; these are already included in most distros.
>
>To clarify:
>
>1). We need a boot-from-the-CD distro that runs in memory (nothing is
>written
>to the hard drive; when they reboot, they're back in Windows-land).
>
>2). We need various regular distros on CD that are newbie-friendly: SuSE,
>Fedora (the new redhat), Mandrake, Linux From Scratch, etc.
>
>3). We need a collection of open source apps that run on windows. If we get
>them using mozilla and openoffice, they're half the way towards migrating
>to
>Linux. We can compile a CD or use one of the pre-existing ones. See earlier
>posts for links.
>
>
> >
><snip>
>
>--
>
>
>Joey Kelly
>< Minister of the Gospel | Computer Networking Consultant >
>http://joeykelly.net
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